A comment from House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) regarding Democrats who have called for Donald Rumsfeld's resignation for his withholding information from Congress AND the President:

"They (Democrats) want to win the White House more than they want to win the war, and our enemies know it."

I guess that's why all of us sunshine patriots are reacting the way we are about our military - our government - torturing prisoners of war. We're just a bunch of vilifiers, or traitors in DeLay's small world of knowledge. And they are POWs since our President insists that we are war (usually, daily). This is the worst thing I have ever heard, certainly ranking with My Lai. I think we have to go all the way back to the 19th Century to find worse. Our military and civilian dealings with the Native American tribes probably falls into a far worse category, but then again we haven't got all the facts yet on this scandal. Are we doing the same thing in Gitmo prison? If we are, then it is not just a small errant group. It will signal that its systematic, and then we have to look deep into our military. I fear that it is systematic.

Meanwhile, I am embarrassed to call myself an American. What on earth were those people thinking?

And we are toast in the Moslem world. Write off our ever having an opportunity to bring about peaceful change.

Send the troops home. Wrack up another defeat.